Poll

Local News

If you build it, they will come!
That is the theory behind the Grant County Career Advancement Center on Taft Highway in Dry Ridge. The center, which offers GED classes and test preparation, as well as employment related services, childcare and transportation, recently celebrated its one year anniversary.
THE GCCAC is a project made possible through a partnership between Gateway Community and Technical College, Grant County Adult Education, Kentucky Career Center and the United Way of Greater Cincinnati.

If you’re going to attempt shoplifting, don’t do it on the Saturday that Wal-Mart is filled with police officers.
As police officers from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, Williamstown Police finished up shopping with 22 children in the annual Shop With A Cop program, the children got to see them in action when a suspected shoplifter was caught by Wal-Mart loss prevention and later arrested by Deputy Kevin Burke.

The Grant County 4-H program benefitted from a $78,863 grant from State Farm Insurance to fund an aquabotics program.

The program is aimed at getting students interested in technical type jobs involving robotics.
“When you talk to people in the community why there’s not more employers it’s because the workers aren’t ready,” said Lamar Fowler, Grant County’s Extension Agent for 4-H.

Two separate accidents snarled traffic Nov. 30 on Interstate 75, leaving one dead and injuring two.
Although the accidents were hours apart, both occurred in nearly the same location on northbound I-75 in Crittenden.
Kenton County Police were dispatched to a single-vehicle accident at 4:53 p.m. near mile marker 166.5, just north of Crittenden.
Investigators determined that a 2006 Buick, driven by William Peacher, 75, of Hamilton, Ohio, was traveling northbound on I-75 when he lost control.

Ninety-year-old Arlene Eckler still picks up a book every day, sometimes reading until 2 a.m. in the morning.
The Dry Ridge resident may be in a wheelchair, but that doesn’t stop the Grant County Public Library from coming to her.
“It’s wonderful,” Eckler said. “Before that somebody would have drive me to the library and put my wheelchair in the car. I’d look over stuff and by the time I got through with the trip I was tired.”

Two men alleged to have killed 54-year-old Dry Ridge resident Randall Russ were indicted Nov. 21 by a Fleming County grand jury.
Charles Black, 50, of Hillsboro, and Kevin Howard, 38, of Owingsville, were indicted on charges of murder, theft by unlawful taking, first-degree robbery, kidnapping and tampering with physical evidence.
Howard also is charged with being a persistent felony offender.
The indictments stem from a body discovered Oct. 1 in Fleming County.

Storme Vanover is on a mission – again and it’s all about honoring veterans, a mission that as a veteran she is passionate about.
When Vanover, of Williamstown, found out that the deadline had passed for Grant County to be part of the Wreaths Across America program, she sprang into action and is attempting to raise $7,200 to buy 720 wreaths to be placed on every veterans grave at the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery North in Williamstown.